Made for the home market, this silent, German propaganda newsreel from the fascist era shows events of the National Labour Day of 1933 30th of April and 1st of May 1933 – showing a speech of von Schirach at a Walpurgis Night Hitler Youth Rally, the works of preparing the Tempelhof expo grounds for a meeting, which will later be a scene of mass book burning. Seen are Hitler, Goebbels, Werner von Blomberg, Paul von Hindenburg. 0:12 Card: "Since the Reichstag building was burned by the communist arsonist assassins, the first assembly of the National government took place at the Kroll opera house" 0:22 The entrance to the Reichstag building with the "The German People" above the entrance and the aftermath of a fire – a completely burned out shell of a building where only ash and burned timbers remain. 0:54 Kroll Opera House 1:00 Pan of the National Assembly with the Nazi Germany flag, the assembly is in a plenary meeting and a speaker in a uniform, presumably, Hitler, is addressing it. 1:32 Card: 1st of May 1933 the National Labour day 1:43 Card: "Numerous works have been undertaken to build the Expo grounds of the Tempelhoffen Feld" aka near the site of the Tempelhof Airport 1:54 Pan from a passing airplane to a fire ladder extended to cut a tree branches 2:00 People working on the wooden frame, rafters, of the Expo buildings and the bleachers of a temporary sort of arena, Berlin Tempelhof airport building in the background. 3:41 Completed arena with the banners of the colors of the German national flag, Nazi banners and flags 3:50 Card: " Last night, during the celebration of Walpurgis' Night by the Hitler Jugend in the mountains of Harz, the leader of Hitler Youth, Baldur von Schirach spoke" 4:07 Baldur von Schirach in uniform reading a speech from a podium, lit by torches, as customary for the Nazi gatherings of the era. Baldur saluting, Hitler Youth saluting. 4:46 Card: "In the afternoon of 1st of May, the German youth gathered at the Berlin's botanical gardens" 4:50 Mass gathering of people, almost no free space to walk, except the lawns, off limits to the public 5:28 Card: "Prime Minister Dr. Goebbels and Defense Minister von Blomberg" 5:38 Josef Goebbels and Werner von Blomberg meeting up with senior military members 6:25 Card: "Prime Minister Dr. Goebbels meeting with the German youth" 6:31 Goebbels speaking into microphones. German Youth organizations / Hitler Youth playing drums. 6:55 Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg step down from a car which just brought them there. 6:59 People doing a one-armed salute to Hitler and Hindenburg. Both shake hands with some of the people present. 7:24 Hitler 7:28 von Hindenburg, looking tired 7:35 Card: "The President of the country, General Field Marshall von Hindenburg addressing the German youth" 7:50 von Hindenburg's speech. 8:04 Hitler and Goebbels look at von Hindenburg 8:12 Dignitaries, priests, in top hats and overcoats, military members in full official uniform 8:15 Hindenburg doing a Nazi salute, everyone saluting him back 8:28 German Cavalry waving their sabers 8:34 Card: "Chancellor Adolf Hitler takes place of the President of the Reich." 8:50 Hitler speaking 8:56 Hitler and Hindenburg get in the car, the crowd salutes. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
